Frost floats bringing in DeSantis to testify over ‘limiting free speech’
WASHINGTON, D.C. (FLV) – During the GOP House Oversight Committee meeting Wednesday, Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-FL, floated the idea of bringing in governors, such as Gov. Ron DeSantis, to testify for “limiting free speech.”
The hearing is the House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s “first step in examining the coordination between the federal government and Big Tech to restrict protected speech and interfere in the democratic process.”
“I have a venue in my district that he’s revoking the liquor license of trying to close because they had a drag show. We have teachers who are not able to teach the curriculum that they want because they disagree with Ron DeSantis and his view of the world,” Frost said.
“That is limiting free speech and I’d love to see this committee bring in some of these governors who are abusing their power by Governor DeSantis in my state of Florida to limit the Free Speech of people,” he said.
Frost said he doesn’t see the point of the hearing on Twitter’s Role in suppressing the “Biden Laptop” story.
Chairman James Comer said the federal government used Twitter to suppress free speech. Members questioned ex-Twitter executives in their role to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Frost said the committee is “wasting our time” and “bullying” former Twitter employees.
“Why are folks on this committee so obsessed with Twitter’s editorial decision on Hunter Biden’s laptop? Would they hold the same hearings of the editorial decisions of Fox News and Newsmax? Free speech is about the government limiting speech around the public about the public.” he said.
“My governor, Ron DeSantis, is doing that right now,” he said.
The chairman said the FBI advised Twitter executives to question the validity of any Hunter Biden story before the New York Post reported on the contents of his laptop.
The Hunter Biden laptop was dropped off at a repair shop in Delaware in April 2019, according to the New York Post.
Florida’s Voice previously reported the FBI seized the laptop in late 2019 and Twitter censored the New York Post’s story containing the laptop’s potentially incriminating content just weeks before the 2020 election.
